Barbara A. Barnett is a 2007 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, where she learned valuable things about writing and the evil ways of chickens. Her fiction ranges from the dark to the wacky and usually falls within the realm of the fantastic: fantasy, science fiction, horror, and the just plain weird.

Since earning a Bachelor of Arts in English and music (vocal performance) from the University of Maryland, Barbara has spent most of her professional life working as a grant writer for various performing arts organizations. She also does some singing and theater performances herself on occasion--when not hunched over a keyboard or otherwise earning a paycheck, that is.

Barbara currently lives in southern New Jersey with her husband and a yard full of chipmunks, bunnies, and other assorted critters.